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REPL to any browser in the cloud

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Interesting. So I can access the web console right?

I guess if people turn this into a server would be awesome.

Sometimes I want to test cross-browser compatibility. For example, Firefox uses textContent instead of innerText. I can easily verify this without having to have Firefox and Chrome (and IE, Opera, etc) on the same machine at the same time.

Exactly why I decided to put this together – quick feature tests on different browsers you intend to support.

The case you mentioned gets me every time: https://i.cloudup.com/ZQApueTFl6.png

Thanks! I will contribute when my hands are a bit loosen. I really like the idea behind it.

Very cool, this is especially useful on OS X or Linux where you don't have easy access to IE. SauceLabs is an incredible service, but for cases like these it is often overkill to fire up a full browser session to quickly check something in the console. I look forward to using this!

trying to understand it: is it a headless full browser that we're trying to connect.?

This provides a service similar to "Can I use..." (http://caniuse.com). But I like the idea of testing behavior as well. Behavior differences are only reproducible in certain browsers, but aren't necessarily listed on caniuse.

I like using http://www.browserstack.com/ for VNC'ing into remote browsers.

They're pretty good, if you don't mind the lack of security that is.

> if you don't mind the lack of security that is

Could you please elaborate?

They use the same virtual machine multiple times between users. You can basically find traces of previous users on their VMs. Now what if somebody installed a keylogger and you're the next one using the VM?

I'm one of the developers in charge of the Sauce Labs' backend and thought I should chime in and confirm with you that that's not the case with our cloud. Our infrastructure is hosted in our own data center and we've gone to great lengths to never, ever reuse VMs. You can read more about our "security through purity" approach: http://sauceio.com/index.php/2011/09/security-through-purity...

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